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Re:Tracking Mixed Bitcoins by shadowprofile77 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:10AM (#24650411)
Could you explain a bit more about what you mean by that? My interpretation is that even if you completed a bunch of BTC transactions in a way that allowed you to maintain anonymity, over time, new methodologies or technologies will allow future investigators to trace you as a real person through those old transactions. This? Or something else?
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Re:Tracking Mixed Bitcoins by hnthrower on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:56AM (#24650818)
That's the just of it. Many of these public ledgers, like Bitcoin, form a massive transaction graph. Blockchain analytics tools and companies de-anonymize nodes in these graphs by matching real-world transactions to blockchain transactions.
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Re:Tracking Mixed Bitcoins by jlgaddis on Thursday October 01, 2020 @11:38AM (#24652151)
> just

gist

(in case you've ever wondered why gist.github.com is so named)

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Re:Tracking Mixed Bitcoins by peteretep on Thursday October 01, 2020 @11:30AM (#24652055)
Yes that’s what I meant — my interpretation is the same as yours
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